Questions for my Interview

I will be interviewing the manager for cooking group going to Guam.

1. What is your name, and position in the kichen?
2.What is the class you are taking, and why did you decide on taking it?
3.Before the Class what was your cooking experience?
4. What is your favorite thing to cook and how do you make it?
5. Describe the competition.
6.What were your first thoughts on the competition?
7. What are you doing to prepare for the competition?
8.How do you think the trip will go?
9. What is the thing your looking forward to the most?
10. What is your biggest worry?

Proposal

In life I believe that students should explore all the possibilities around them, in order to find what they want to do in their future. My film will show this in action by following four high schoolers' experience as their class goes to compete in Guam. There is a culinary class that is going to a cook off in Guam to cook against all the other schools in the Pacific region. If they win they will be compete in a world-wide event. The main conflict in this journey will be the teacher, who is pushing to the students to cook faster and better. Then the conflict will be the students against other students in the competition. The structure of the film will be determined by if they win or not. Ultimately I want the audience to feel empathy for the students.

The sequence’s expected to happen are the class is going to practice cooking, they will have a fun raiser in order to come up with money for the trip, ride an airplane to Guam. In Guam they have a few days until the competition, so they can explore a bit. Then anticipation for the competition. Finally they day of the cook-off. If they win or not. The trip back and lastly a month later recap to see how they changed.

The main characters are going to be the students. Megan, Nancy, William, and Samantha. Megan is the manager of the group. She’s primarily looking at the clock and making sure the kitchen is functioning properly. Megan, also, prepares all of the written documents for the class. I know Nancy, she use to work at the same pool as me. In the class she will be working as the second in command. Nancy knows how to prepare all the dishes by heart. William and Samantha are the grunts. They prepare all dishes, clean, if something goes wrong it will most likely fall on one of them.
The audience should be entertained with my piece. The students have some funny personalities. Megan is in a culinary class, but doesn't like eating most vegetables. Nancy is a fantastic cook, but will refuse to cook. William sees himself as the best cook, yet he has to do all the grunt work because he's the newest in the class. Samantha is lighthearted and careless, and hopefully starts to bug people out. Outside of entertainment, certain groups may evaluate the film to see if these type of competition are worth the time and investment from the school. In those situations I would rather the film to avoid.

3 Day Project : day 3

Today I picked out a girl named Fumi Ozawa to interview.
She wasn't the first person I choose. A few people just got up and left when I went to talk to them.
I explained my project, she seemed interested. I even got her out of the cafe.

We ended up going to a manga kissa, to do the interview. I pitched the price for both of us.

To hear the interview click the link below
http://www.divshare.com/download/13819834-a5a

3 Day Project : day 2

I managed to get the same seat. Had the same drink too.

I brought a note book to write down soome interesting people this time.

The same old ladies came, but didn't sit by me. The place is packed so it was luck that I got the same seat

There's the coffee aroma, and the chatter of the busy station outside. 

There was a European guy reading a complicated book in Japanese. I couldn't figure out what it was though.

3 Day Project : day 1

I picked out a Starbucks in my station. Kamata

I got tea, and I sat in the back to watch people.

It was quetier than I was expecting

Mostly readers or people busy with school or work.

Two old ladies sat next to me and evaluated the food. It was funny

Study Questions: Chapter "Two Types of Film"; Nichols, Bill

1.What does the author mean by documentaries of "wish-fulfillment'and 'social representation'? How are they similar? Different?
Documentaries of "wish-fulfillment" discipline are fictions. These films are fantasy and nightmares that someone makes up.   Documentaries of "social representation" discipline are non-fictions. These films show parts of the world that are real and tangible.

2. With regards to an on-camera subject, what is the difference between performing in a fictional role and being a part of a non-fiction film? Can the lines between actor and subject blur? In what way?
The difference with fiction and non-fiction characters is the first an actor is trying to act in a believable role, and the latter is the subject is trying to act normal. Actors and subjects can blur in non-fictions because everyone since childhood has been trained to act in a way to present them self to a camera. In a way a actors can become subjects, but then they are a good actor or won't get many roles.

3. What are some of the social/ethical responsibilities documentary filmmakers need to consider with regards to their subjects?
Filmmakers need to balance their relationship with the subject and the relationship with the viewer.  They need to judge what they are recording and judge what may be the result of capturing that moment.  The filmmaker runs the risk of changing the way the subject acts, and getting into some serious legal problems.

4.With regards to the "I Speak about Them to You"dynamic, what role can the director play with regards to the documentary? For example, objective versus subject?
the "I Speak about Them to You"dynamic is a popular way of creating a relationship with the audience and the filmmaker. The "I" makes the setting a bit personal. "Speak about"  helps convey the filmmaker as a representative for a subject. "Them" separates the subject and the audience.